Salt concentration arowanas can tolerate?

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batang_mcdo

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I'm currently treating my arowanas tail , I've dosed my tank to have salt at .2%
whats the highest percentage that my arowana and datnoid can safely take?
planning to bring it up to .4% and maybe to .6% eventually?
Been trying to treat my xbacks tail, so far there's improvement, the worm like griwth has vanished, but pimples are still present.
 
thanks, trying to treat my arowanas tail.
I've tried upto 1 tablespoon per 3 gallons, but it doesn't seem to be working, My salt content is now upto .3%
1.5 KG salt for 150 Gallon tank. planning to bring it up to .6 % but not sure if arowana or datnoid can take that much salt?
 
No idea about the Dat but the Aro will have no problem with .6% can go straight from .3 to .6 no problem.
Treated my Green for Lurnea with .75 salt and potassium permanganate @ 2mg per litre
Leis I will bath @ 1.5% salt and 20mg potassium permanganate for 15 minutes
Have you identified the parasite ?
 
Have not been able to identify the parasite,
but I've been told it might be more of bacterial infection than parrasite?

here are some pictures before i treated with furazan and before i started to increase salt in my tank

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and here are now the pictures after 1-2 weeks into the treatment, I just reached the .6% concentration today. will maintain the salt for a week.

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the string like things are now gone, but I'm a little worried as there are still pimple like stuff, those much less.
 
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